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Organisation: Institute for Culture Studies and History of Theatre, Austrian Academy of Sciences; Working Group 'History of Science', History Department, University of Vienna; Department of Political Science and Sociology, European University at St. Petersburg; Department of English and German Philology, University of Granada, Vienna

Concept and organisation:

Johannes Feichtinger (Institute for Culture Studies and History of Theatre, Austrian Academy of Sciences): johannes.feichtingeroeaw.ac.at Miles MacLeod (Konrad Lorenz Institute for Evolution and Cognition Research, Vienna): miles.macleodkli.ac.at Ekaterina Smirnova (Department of Political Science and Sociology, European University at St. Petersburg): esmirnovaeu.spb.ru Rocío Sumillera (Department of English and German Studies, University of Granada): sumillecorreo.ugr.es Jan Surman (History Department, University of Vienna / Institute for History of Science, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw): jan.surmanunivie.ac.at

The conference revolves around the discussion of scientific language, understood both as a medium influencing scientific and scholarly production and as the product of the interaction between linguistics, philosophy and materiality. Furthermore, language becomes a consciously modeled tool aiming at achieving definite scientific and political goals without disregarding the need for scholarly communication between distinct communities. The analysis of processes of scientific translation - between languages, objects, disciplines or concepts - helps us to understand scholars' and scientists' use of the intersection between epistemological and performative functions of language and its modifications under different political circumstances.